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Streetcars in New Orleans: Between Decoration and Transit

Streetcars on lower Canal in 2013. (Ebgundy via Wikimedia Commons, cropped)

Prior to introducing our subject today, let me first inform you that this draft had been incubating for an unacceptably long time. While working on this post during several different periods of time spanning a long period of time, I’ve felt many different feelings, from excitement, to curiosity, to dread, to indifference, but none of […]

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SEPTA Subway-Surface: Unmodernized

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A 34 K-car at 40th Street in April 2021. (Courtesy of Arcan)

Prologue Well, here we are back in Philadelphia, now for the final time. To finish out Philadelphia and in fact the Northeast in general (of the “first gen systems”), here’s the Septa Subway-Surface lines, in which we’re including the 15 – Girard Avenue line. This is a huge and rather disorganized system, so get ready […]